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Corporate Services Advisory

The corporate backbone your growth needs, without a full-time hire.

Fractional or embedded support to put in place the policies, processes, governance and structure that growing businesses suddenly find they need. We work alongside your leadership team for as long as you need us, and no longer.

  • Fractional
  • Embedded
  • Project-based
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Is this you?

Who it’s for

  • Owners, CEOs and COOs whose business has outgrown “we’ll just sort it out”
  • Companies that need senior support-function expertise, but not a full-time executive yet
  • Businesses preparing for growth, investment, a major contract or a sale
  • Leadership teams spending too much time on admin and not enough on the business

Problems we solve

  • Policies that are missing, out of date, or copied from somewhere else
  • Nobody’s quite sure who can approve what
  • Support functions that grew up separately and don’t talk to each other
  • Leadership reporting that takes days to pull together
  • Key knowledge sitting in one or two people’s heads

The work

What’s included

Support-function review

A clear picture of how your corporate services are set up today, what’s working, and where the risks are.

Policy framework

A right-sized set of policies for your business, written in plain English, and actually followed.

Governance and delegations

Clear decision rights, delegations of authority and approval workflows, so things stop bottlenecking at the top.

Structure and roles

Practical advice on structuring support functions as you grow, including when to hire and when not to.

Leadership reporting

Simple, regular reporting that pulls from the systems you already have.

Fractional support

An experienced hand a few days a month, or embedded in your team through a busy period.

The process

How an engagement runs

  1. 01

    Diagnose

    We talk to your leadership and the people doing the work, and review what’s already in place.

  2. 02

    Design

    We agree priorities with you and design the structure, policies and processes to match, tested with the people who’ll use them.

  3. 03

    Build & pilot

    We put them in place with your team, trialling them on real decisions and real work.

  4. 04

    Embed & improve

    We train the owners and hand over, or stay on in an ongoing fractional role if that suits you better.

More on how we work

Ways to work with us

Own it, or let us run it. The choice is yours.

Every business is different, so we adapt to how you want to work.

Build and hand over

We build the system, train your team and hand you the keys. You own it outright, with no lock-in.

Managed service

We build it and keep it running for you on our managed platform: hosting, updates, support and improvements, so you don’t have to worry about it.

Somewhere in between

Start with us running it and take it in-house later, or the other way round. We’re adaptable.

Has your business outgrown its back office?

Let’s talk about where things are bottlenecking. We’ll tell you what to fix first, and whether you need us to fix it.

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